EditorialFragments, Medium: cotton Technique: printed on plain weave, Fragments of red on a white ground in a design of flowers and foliage; massive stone castle; girl with a watering can; and small dock jutting into a stream., Central Europe, ca. 1840, printed...
EditorialHalf Dome, Yosemite, Thomas Moran, American, b. Britain, 18371926, Brush and watercolor, white gouache, graphite on blue-gray wove paper, Vertical vista features the granite peak of Half Dome, Yosemite, looming between boulders in the foreground and sn...
EditorialUrn of earthenware with little jutting belly, faintly curved edge. The top of the rim decorated with finger art. Old glues and additions, gaps in the wall, surface damage, the edge is damaged., Urn, pottery, h: 20 cm, diam: 19.5 cm, prehistory -800.
EditorialGold earring with a glass pendant in the shape of an African?s head, Hellenistic, late 2nd?1st century B.C., Greek, Eastern Mediterranean, Gold, glass; cast in a two-part mold, Other (Pendant): 7/8 x 7/16 x 1/2 in. (2.2 x 1.1 x 1.3 cm), Pendant: Deep c...
EditorialWatchtowers not connected to the Great Wall of China lie north of the wall, jutting out into the lands of the Nomads, against whom the Wall was erected by China's first Emperor, Qin Shihuangdi around 210 BCE. See 05-01-02 / 1-12.
EditorialGold earring with a glass pendant in the shape of an African?s head, Hellenistic, late 2nd?1st century B.C., Greek, Eastern Mediterranean, Gold, glass; cast in a two-part mold, Other (Pendant): 7/8 x 7/16 x 1/2 in. (2.2 x 1.1 x 1.3 cm), Pendant: Deep c...
EditorialHead of a statue of an older man, Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4?5, ca. 2550?2460 B.C., From Egypt, Limestone, paint, 4 x 4 3/16 x 3 3/8 in. (10.2 x 10.7 x 8.5 cm), The small head was probably part of a standing statue with a back pillar. Narrow eyes, the rema...
EditorialGold earring with a glass pendant in the shape of an African?s head, Hellenistic, late 2nd?1st century B.C., Greek, Eastern Mediterranean, Gold, glass; cast in a two-part mold, Other (Pendant): 7/8 x 7/16 x 1/2 in. (2.2 x 1.1 x 1.3 cm), Pendant: Deep c...
EditorialMan with Prayer Beads, mid-17th century, Attributed to Iran, Isfahan, Ink, transparent and opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, H. 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm), Codices, Painting by Muhammad `Ali, In the mid-seventeenth century, followers of the famous Riza-yi...
EditorialLimestone head of a bearded male wearing a conical helmet, Archaic, middle or third quarter of the 6th century B.C., Cypriot, Limestone, Overall: 16 x 8 1/4 x 8 in. (40.6 x 21 x 20.3 cm), Stone Sculpture, The rounded beard is smooth, with the central p...
EditorialCharles Dickens, from a recent daguerreotype by Mayall, 1 December, 1855. . Memoir of Charles Dickens. . The lives of men of genius when happy, are ordinarily uneventful. It may, perhaps, be one of the reaspms for the paucity of materials available for...